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Poverty not Slavery.

Poverty is no crime it is misfor-
tune. The class of employers who
have always been eager to grind down
the face of the poor has been and is
large. And the class of laborers who
by force of circumstances have been
compelled to submit to this grinding
down has also been large; and in
many cases the very wrong idea that
their bodies as well as their labor be-
longed to their oppressors has pre-
vailed.
Poverty is not slavery; though in
many instances employers of labor
have made it tantamount to slavery.
And it will be possible for them to
commit this crime against humanity
just so long as the laborer permits
some one else to think for him. Cor
porations have no souls. They are
formed for the purpose of securing
the almighty dollar, and it matters
not to them that the dollar is an alloy
of blood, tears and despair, SO long
as they get it. Their hearts know no
pity for the poor they know no SYM
patty for suffering. Therefore, the
laborer must know his rights and
stand for them, or he is subjected to
a bondage beside which the slavery
of the blacks was comparative free
dom.
Workingmen, in whatever condition
to-day, whether well-to-do or other
wise your only safety is in informing
your minds as to your rights in socie-
ty and your relations to your employ
er, seek to better your condition.
The doctrine of .slet well enough
alone" is poor one for you to follow
for what is well enough to-day may
tomorrow be bad enough. Your lit
erty cannot be reckoned as a part of
your labor. Seek to put that beyond
the reach of your employer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
The Clam and the Sage.

A Clam who had made up his mind that
this country was going to the Dogs if he
did not save it was Rolling along the
Beach when he Encountered a Sage, who
asked:
WHITTIER bound and for what pur-
poser"
II have set out to save the Country.
have solved all the Political and Social
Problems and now go to announce them
to the World.
''My Dear Bivalve," said the Sage in
his gentlest tones, ''the first great Prob
lem of Life, AS you are probably prepared
to announce, is the Food supply. Thinks
for your coming. l shall Eat you! Ncxtr'
Moral-Parties have often made use OF
Fools and Demagogues to Win Victories
Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
Vermont News.

The Missiquoi railroad depot at
Enosburg Falls was entered last week
Wednesday and the safe blown open.
The thieves only took 81, not dis
turbing the tickets and notes in the
safe. There is as yet no clue to the
robbers.
Work on B. G.. Howe's new build
ing, to be known as Postoffice Block
in st. Johnsbury, has been suspend
ed on account of legal technicality
in the deed of the land. 1t was sold
some time ago on condition that no
liquor saould be sold on the land, OF
the property should revert to the
grantors if such sales were persisted
in 30 days. The same penalty was
to be paid if any building be erected
nearer than 20 feet from the street
line, and the west corner of this build
ing is only II feet from the street
line, and the lower corner is seven
inches short. Mr.. Howe has receiv-
ed notice from DR.. Bancroft of Con-
cord, n. H., and ex-Gov. Fairbanks
and Franklin Fairbanks of st. Johns
bury.
John f., son of Charles Mcclure,
aged II, who was run over by a loco
motive at Marshfield Summit on
Thursday, died of his injuries Satur-
day morning.
Eddie HER of Benson fell upon a
scythe Tuesday, and his right leg was
nearly amputated at the knee joint.
The Y. M. C. A. of EST. Johns
bury is to publish monthly paper.
There were 10 persons received in
to the Methodist church at Wheelock
July Il and II into the Baptist church.
Rev. Father Cloarec of st. Joseph
college, Burlington, sails this week
for France. He is to spend several
weeks in Brittany, and will be absent
about two months.
The free delivery of mail matter
began at Montpelier Friday with two
carriers % letter boxes have beer
located on the streets.
The sixth annual assembly of the
Spirituahst Camp Meeting Associa,
ton in Burlington begins August l6
and will continue till September II
The meetings are to be held in Queer
City Park.
Thursday afternoon special meet.
ing of the Bennington village corpo.
ration voted nearly unanimously tc
light the streets with electric lights
and empowered the board of trustees
to carry the resolution into immediate
effect.
A five-year-old boy named Fraden-
burg was drowned in the Walloomsac
at Bennington ON Tuesday.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
WILL You, READER, AID Us?
Prosperity follows the abolition of the

Several weeks ago press dispatch
from St. Joseph, Missouri stated
that
1.-THE closing of the saloons in Atchison,
Kansas, has cut off the most profitable
source of revenue, amounting to thousands
of dollars year, and, as result, the city
has not revenue to keep going: that the
police force, with the exception of the
marshal and one policeman, had been sus-
pended; that the services of the firemen
were to be dispensed with; and that the
gas and electric lights were to be shut
Off"
Now, governor Martin writes long
letter to the manager of the assoca-
ted press at Chicago, not only deny
ing this statement but showing con-
clusively that Atchison in common
with all other Kansas cities has been
materially benefited by the closing
of the saloons. He says,
"Atchison abolished the last of its sa-
looms IN the fall of 1886. The whiskey
interests prophesied that this action
would seriously injure the business of the
city. 1t has had no such effect Atchison
is more prosperous, to-day, than it has
been for many years past. Its wholesale
trade aggregated over four million dollars
in 1886, and during the first six months of
1887 this trade has increased fully thirty
three per cent over that for the cores
ponding six months of 1886. All the
principal streets of the city are now be-
ing paved. More substantial improve.
ments are being made, and more buildings
are being erected in Atchison, this yeaI
than during any previous year in its his
tory. Ten important lines of railway
center in the city, and the Southern Kan.
sas Railway has just extended its line to
Atchison. The central shops of the Mis-
souri, Pacific road have recently been To-
Gated there: the largest lumber yard in the
west has recently been established there
and many other important commercial
and manufacturing Industries have beer
located there during the past six months
Better than all, too, hundreds of thousand.
of dollars that were
FORMERLY WASTED IN THE SALOONS
are now expended in feeding and clothing
and housing the people, and, as a result
thousands of wives and children in Atch
ison who were living in poverty a few
years ago, are now prosperous, happy ant
content"
The governor says the same stat,
of facts is applicable to every cit,
and section of the state, and presents
an array of statistics to prove til,
same that cannot be gainsaid. ii,
concludes as follows:
Summing up the facts of the census
confute and confound those who asser
that the material prosperity of any com
munity is prompted by the presence o.
saloons. So far as Kansas and all he
cities and towns are concerned, the re
verse of this assertion is true. The mos
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
DISASfR0US FLOODS.
Immense Damage In New England and
New York.

Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and portion of Maine and New
York We're visited by immense fresh
cts last Saturday and Sunday. The
rainfall is reported at some points as
being over ) inches. In New lamp
shire the storm is said to have been
the most disastrous one that has visit
ed the State for twenty years.
Large numbers of bridges are washed
away, and travel by railway and high
way impeded. At Miller's Falls it
will take weeks to repair the damage.
We quote from the regular press dis
patches of Monday night:
"Never before in its history has
Miller's Falls experienced such dam
age by water as was occasioned by
Sundays freshets. Between that
town and Erving, distance of six
miles, are 20 washouts and IL land
slides, by actual count. During Sun
days violent rain torrent of water
came rushing down the mountain road
just east of the Fitchburg depot,
Outlying it badly. In short time
the depot fiat was buried under three
feet of water. Just east of the pas
senger station is the freight depot.
This the waters totally undermined,
leaving chasm GO feet wide and II
feet deep through the gravelly soil.
Passing underneath the side tracks,
it dropped freight and coal cars into
the chasm, end up. The torrent
rushed down the steep incline to the
river, 200 feet, tearing a gorge 20
feet deep and 80 feet wide, under
mining the coal sheds and shade
ucco III ito Paoo'SS'
South of the Lake House is anoth-
er gully ten feet deep and fifteen feet
wide. On Sunday the Lake House
was completely surrounded by an an
CRY food. A portion of the south
end of the building is undermined.
Sections of the Fitchburg railroad
yard tracks are undermined, in places
quite badly.
Bridge street is quilted so as to be
impossible; Pine Meadow, to the
highway bridge at Mortified Farms,
is washed away, and the highway
bridges between Miller's Falls and
Erving are all gone, so that travel by
team is impossible, on which account
transfer of passengers cannot be
made"
A prominent railroad man said this
afternoon that if the railroad put Oh
its entire force of workmen it vii
take fully two weeks before tho roaG
is anywhere near repaired.
OF the 25 washOuts mentioned a.
bove, either one is large enough tc
engulph a train.
About | 1-2 miles east of Miller's
Falls station is washout under the
tracks 80 feet long and 6 teet deep
A mile beyond the track is quilted
distance of 100 feet and 40 feet deep
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
GEPHYR-

This by Enchancr he
sired
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toing families the
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has been this section
TERMS To insure, payable
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

The democrats of Ohio have nomi-
mated one Powell for governor. If
we are to believe one of the leading
democratic papers, the World, he will
stand a slim chance for an election
The World says:
"Mr. Powell, the nominee for Gov
ernor, is an experienced machine pol.
itician, who was trained in the Stand.
ard Oil school and was prominent il
the local crusade against Mr.. Pendle.
ton. He is by no means strong
candidate with the people, and has nc
particular qualifications for the Office
for which he is nominated"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

Jamie "a favorite with the grocer)-Say,
Mr.. Carrot, can you whistler
Mr.. Carrot-Certainly. Why do you
ask
Jamie-Tm so glad Pa said last
night you'd have to whistle for your bill,
and l was afraid you wouldn't get your
money.-New York Mail and Express.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
FOR SALE.

A large two story dwelling house
pleasantly situated on main street in the
village of SO. Londonderry.
This house is adapted for two tene-
ments or for boarding house, and is in
excellent condition.
For further particulars inquire of
f. f. CHURCHILL. So Londonderry
or Mrs NJ. j. LAWRY.
Fairfield Me.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

wonderful era of prosperity, of material,
moral and intellectual development, of
growth of country, cities and towns ever
witnessed ON the American continent, has
been illustrated in Kansas during the six
years since the temperance amendment to
our constitution was adopted, and especi-
ally during the past two years, the period
of its most energetic and complete en-
forcement."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

One A. A. Carlton, member of
the general executive board of the X .
of L., said last Sunday in Rutland,
that every Industrious man earns ST.
200 year. That's all correct, we
knew we had earned it. But won't
Mr.. c. tell us how to get it. There's
the ruh
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

The South is putting forth its
claims for the vice-presidency on the
democratic ticket with Cleveland.
Georgia is putting forward Gov. Cor
don and Virginia names Fitz Hugh
Lee. On the other hand it is said
that the president is impressed with a
belief that he needs, on the ticket
with himself an ex-union soldier from
the West, and that postmaster-gener-
al Villas is his choice.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

Somebody has been putting up a
corner in railroad ties on Jay Gould
and the poor devil has lost hundred
thousand or more. A man must be
dead to all the decent sensibilities of
life who would put up job on poor
Jaw.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
DEATHS

DEATHS.
In Jacksonville July 20, Paul Robbins,
aged SO.
In Winhall July %. Susie A., wife of
l.. C. Shattuck, aged %.
Chou vert so like form of light,
That Heaven benignly called the hence,
Ere vet the world could breathe one blight
Der thy sweet innocence;
And thou, that brighter home to bless,
Art passed, with all thy loneliness"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
A Saratoga landlord saws: eth,

was time when the hotel guest who
didn't have a bottle of wine before
him was scarcely to be found. Now
the man who orders wine with his
dinner feels himself conspicuous"
Girls who make cigarettes earn
about eight dollars week. Young
men who smoke cigarettes often earn
less.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

A cable dispatch to the Chicago
News says that scotch reporter I'M
dertook to interview Mr.. Blaine and
that the Maine statesman took him
in hand and fairly pumped him dry on
variety of topics and then dismissed
him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

At recent meeting of the demo-
cratic editors of Indiana one of them
made savage assault upon the pres
ident. Doubtless he had failed to
get his post office.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
LEGAL NOTICES.

Jennie $. Thayer windham County Court,
Marshall ". Thayer. September Term 1887.
Whereas Jennie s. Thayer of Brattleboro in
the county of Windham, aforesaid, having this
day filed in the Office of the clerk of the Wind
ham county court her libel for a divorce against
her said husband, Marshall w Thayer, return.
able to the term of said court next TO be holden
at Newfane within and for said Windham county
on the second Tuesday of September, A. D.lSS7,
setting forth her marriage to the said libellee on
the 3lst day of January 1873, their residence in
the said county of Windham, and that she ceased
to live with him on or about November lst ISL
by reason that he treated her, the said libellant
with intolerable severity. And it also being
made to appear that the said libellee is now a
resident without the State of Vermont where the
ordinary process of this court connot be served
upon him, it is therefore ordered that the said IL
bellant give notice to the said libellee of the pen
dency of her said libel and the term of court to
which the same is made returnable, by publish
ing'the substance of her said libel together with
this order for three weeks successfully in the
Londonderry SITTER, newspaper published at
Londonderry in said Win Than county the last
publication thereof to be at least six weeks prior
TO the term of court to which said libel is made
rcturnable, which said publication shall be deem
ed sufficient notice for the said libellee to appear
and contest the same if he shall see fit.
Given under my hand at Brattleboro, in said
Wndham County, the sd day of June, A. ID.
1887.
r. TYLER, Clerk
Haskins & Stoddard Attys for Petitioner.
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Circulation 036 Copies.

The regular 'ceekly edition Of The
Londonderry Sitter is 80 Quires o,
$50 copies, echich number is absorbed
az its regular eceekly bona tide circulo'
ton. attest, G. Il. SHANKs,
Editor and Business Manager.
State of Vermont,
Windham County, SIS
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 2Sth
day of July, A. ID. 1887.
A. E. CUDWORTU Notary Public.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
BIRTHS.

In So, Londonderry Jnly "a, son to
Mr.. and Mrs. r. E, Bostwick.
In Jamaica July 81, adaughter to Mr..
and Mrs James Robbins.
In Jamaica July 3, a son to Miss Lila
Munden.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
Albert g: Whitaker windham County Court
Lila j. Whitaker. J September Term, 1887.

Albert G. Whitaker windham County Court
LILA j. Whitaker. September Term, 1887.
Whereas Albert c. Whitaker of Marlboro in
the county of Windham, aforesaid, having this
day filed in the office OF the clerk of the Wind
ham county court his libel for divorce, against
his said wife, Lila J. Whitaker, retur1lable to
the term of said court next to be holden at New
fame within and for said windham county on the
second Tuesday OF September, \. u. 1857, set
ting forth his marriage to the said libellee the
2ith day of September A. d. lSS2. their resi-.
dcnce in said windham county, and that he ceas
ell to live with said hbellee on or about Novem-
Der 10th A. ID. lss6, by reason that she the said
libellee treated him the said niellant with mtol-
cradle severity. And it also being msde TO ap
pear that the said hbellee Is now residing with
cut the State of Vermont where the ordinary pro
of this court cannot be served upon her, it is
therefore ordered that the said iheilant give no
tce to the said bellee Of the pendencS of his salt
libel and the term of court TO which the same Is
made returnable, by publishing the substance OF
his said libel, together with this order, for three
weeks successfully in the Londonderry SITTER
a newspaper published at Londonderry IN sara
windham county, the last publication thereof TO
he at least six weeks prior to the term of court TO
which said libel is made returnable which said
publication shall be deemed sufficient notice
or the said Hbellee to appear and contest the
same if he shall see lit.
Given under my hand at Brattleboro in said
windham county the ssth day of June, A. d.
1881.
r. TYLER, Clerk.
Haskins & stoddari, Auys for Petitioner.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

Mrs. John A. Logan, who was Sc
verely injured by a recent carriage ac-
cident, is improving.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

Sitter John, Editor.

Eternally opposed TO all rings, eiiques,
clans and factions-The Peoples Organ.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28

John, Taylor, president of the Nor
mon church, died Tuesday.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
Five Months for 25 Cents.

We offer the SITTER, to new subscri-
bers, from August the first, or from the
time the subscription is received, till Jan
nary the first 1888, for rs cents.
1t must be obvious to all intelligent per-
sons that this proposition is made simply
as matter of advertising, and that we
are looking to the future for any benefits
that may accrue to us, as there is not a
direct penny in this offer to the publisher,
Since the inception of this paper it has
stood alone on its merits. No advertising
has been done. No extra inducements
have been offered nor canvas made, yet,
it has steadily advanced in popularity I'M
til its circulation, under the circumstances
of its location and the bitter opposition it
has received, has reached almost phe-
nomenal figure, and is a surprise to every
one. This can only be accounted for
struggles it has been in sympathy with
the masses, and has steadily stood by the
rights of the common people as against
the wire-puller, caucus-packer and monop-
olist, believing that the people need no
self-constituted guardianship either in
the matter of politics or in relation to the
moral issues of the day, but that they are
abundantly able to chose for themselves.
In this, its faith has never been clOuded
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An important political campaign will
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man and the interests of the common peo-
pie will be passed upon, and officers elected
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We hope to enter this campaign with Il
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
MARRIED..

In So. Londonderry July %, by Rev.
w. II. Wight, Burton A. Prouty and
Bertha NJ. Skinner both of Winhall.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-07-28
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on
Social, Etiquette.

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